Comment by jasonmccay
1 day ago
Yes! The ability to be outside, pull out your phone, and get an almost-to-the-minute awareness of when it was going to rain felt magical, right out of Back to the Future 2. I used this countless times.
So much of weather forecasting, at that time, was about trends and probabilities. DarkSky was about events, certainty, and action.
It was truly ahead of anything else and forced a new standard.
> The ability to be outside, pull out your phone, and get an almost-to-the-minute awareness of when it was going to rain felt magical
But iOS has this now. It's the same thing. They integrated it from Dark Sky.
it doesn't work nearly as well. i'm not sure why, but the predictions are significantly worse than dark sky's were
I agree. One of the weird things is that the precipitation map will show rain coming that doesn't show anywhere else in the Weather app. Nearly every time that happens, the map is the one that's correct. And usually forecast.weather.gov will align with the map as well (and provide a better forecast than the app).
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